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Friday, April 3, 2015

Re: [Yasmin_discussions] Fwd: Announcing YASMIN discussion on LIGHT

Actually according to the NASA website the music is from a production house called Killer Tracks founded in 1989.... So I would say it is a contemporary composition using traditional orchestral techniques ... Perhaps a sort of faux early 20th century sound. But certainly not old. And I would assume Nasa paid for it and that makes it a commission. Killer Tracks specializes in backing music for video, film, etc. they, like most production companies of this type, give the client what they want. Someone liked "sweeping strings"!

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> On Apr 3, 2015, at 10:37 AM, roger malina <rmalina@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>
> Guillermo
>
> yes the images of the sun are fascinating- but its always disturbing to see
> scientists use musical styles from a 100 years ago to accompany the most
> contemporary of contemporary images !
>
> why didnt they commission a contemporary composer to write dramatic
> music using todays musical idioms !
>
> there is a huge literature on the connections of science and music
> and the musical avocations of scientists- but somehow there is
> a 'decalage" !!
>
> roger
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Guillermo Muñoz <m.m.guillermo@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 5:00 AM
> Subject: Re: [Yasmin_discussions] Announcing YASMIN discussion on LIGHT
> To: YASMIN DISCUSSIONS <yasmin_discussions@estia.media.uoa.gr>
>
>
> Dear Yasminers,
>
> We spend one week on this "Light is my business" discussion. We are prety
> happy to see thta there are many contributions from the whole planet.
> Tocelebrate this first week i would like to share this short film about
> our, may be, most important source of light: the sun. The film is made by
> the Goddard Space Flight Center, from NASA. I guess that this extremly
> beautiful images, are science, are data traveling from the sun in kind of
> infrared, visible or UV waves, translated may be to some radio waves, or
> carried by 1,55 microns light throught fiber optics up to our computers.
> Really, i do not exactly all this amazing route of light from Sun up to our
> eyes. But i know that it is fascinating. Is science, i´m sure. But is art,
> i´m sure too. This kinds of fascinations pull us to the adventures. And,
> for sure, to share our emmotions. May be this is the reason because music
> is so important.
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSVv40M2aks#t=79>
>
>
> Guillermo.
>
> 2015-04-02 8:07 GMT+02:00 Avi Rosen <avi@ee.technion.ac.il>:
>
>> On April 27, 1992, the sculptor Ezra Orion directed the performance Super
>> Cathedral I, aiming laser beams perpendicularly and simultaneously around
>> the world up to the sky and the infinity of the universe. This action is
>> the final detachment of sculpture from the physicality that had governed it
>> since prehistory, towards immense energy fields, at the speed of light. The
>> laser beams left the solar system in five hours; today they are 23 light
>> years from Earth. The laser beams join the cathedral of radio waves
>> broadcast from Earth, and their height is around 90 light years. Orion
>> proposed a continuation of this project, to be called Super Cathedral 4,
>> aiming for a unique interstellar cosmic arrangement. According to the laws
>> of Riemann's non-Euclidian geometry, eventually the laser beam will execute
>> a Moebius-strip-like loop in space, and return to its origin: the artist's
>> body and consciousness. The transmitted galactic laser beam loop creates
>> compression of space and time of Schwarzschild's cube model, while uniting
>> between space-time, subject, and object.
>> http://www.orbit.zkm.de/?q=node/108>>
>> AVI
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: yasmin_discussions-bounces@estia.media.uoa.gr [mailto:
>> yasmin_discussions-bounces@estia.media.uoa.gr] On Behalf Of Liliane Lijn
>> Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2015 11:37 PM
>> To: YASMIN DISCUSSIONS
>> Subject: Re: [Yasmin_discussions] Announcing YASMIN discussion on LIGHT
>>
>> Hi Stephen
>>
>> Your questions are fascinating. Have you had any answers to them?
>>
>> David Bohm wrote that light contained all information. He also wrote that
>> matter was 'frozen light'. If he is right, then does matter also contain
>> all information? When 'frozen' will that information degrade?
>>
>> I would be very interested to learn more about this.
>>
>> Many thanks.
>>
>> Liliane
>> Liliane Lijn
>> +39 075-782-4357
>> 3381694382
>> www.lilianelijn.com>>
>>
>>> On 30 Mar 2015, at 17:10, Stephen Nowlin <stephen.nowlin@artcenter.edu>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Hello, Guillermo and Roger -- this should be a fascinating topic.
>>>
>>> I have a question about how much information is contained in light
>> traveling through space. From my house in Southern California I look
>> straight up to Mount Wilson, where Edwin Hubble confirmed an expanding
>> universe by measuring the redshift in light traveling from distant
>> galaxies. Early telescope optics had shown other galaxies as fuzzy clouds
>> of light, and thus by virtue of our inability to fully parse the
>> information contained therein, our perception of the universe was
>> incomplete and conclusions drawn were distorted. The difference between
>> those early fuzz clouds and current images of galaxies from powerful land
>> and space-based telescopes is stunning -- the light reaching us is the
>> same, but our technology for parsing the information contained within that
>> light advanced during the last century.
>>>
>>> So, my question is: How much information travels in light? How much
>> potentially MORE information travels in light than can we can currently
>> decipher, should we be able to develop the technologies to see it?
>>>
>>> It is clear, for example, that light bouncing off the Earth can yield
>> amazing detail as seen from close-by orbiting telescopes -- just look at
>> Google Map's satellite view. And from the Hubble Telescope we can see a lot
>> of information reflected off the surface of Mars, which is of course much
>> further away -- so could some astronomer on another planet at the other
>> side of the galaxy, using light-analyzing technologies we perhaps can't
>> even imagine, theoretically be able to see Mars at the same or even better
>> resolution? Given the physics of light, whether reflected or originated by
>> a body in space, will all the information contained therein travel intact
>> to very far away places? Could we someday observe stars in distant galaxies
>> at the same resolution we currently observe our Sun? My question is not
>> whether it is feasible to invent such sophisticated observation
>> technologies -- but rather would the physics of light traveling through
>> space allow close-up detail from very far aw!
>>> ay -- would the information be preserved in the light and be awaiting
>> detection, should such technologies be invented?
>>>
>>> /stephen
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